Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 15 · 40 questions

Leader's tip (Steps, dates, spare days): List the steps and give each step a number of days and a mini-deadline. Days needed = add up the steps. Spare days = days you have − days needed. Due in 14 days, tasks 3 + 5 + 2 = 10 days → 4 spare days. Do what is due sooner first, start early and check your progress every week.

1. 1.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
2. 2.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) after it is due (b) in the third week (c) the night before (d) this week
3. 3.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a date for one step (b) a holiday (c) the final due date (d) a late fine
4. 4.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) neither (b) study for the test (c) make the poster (d) play first
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) breaking work into steps (d) no spare time
6. 6.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) listing tasks first (c) starting early (d) forgetting the due date
7. 7.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) hard part first (c) ignoring the timetable (d) checking progress weekly
8. 8.📅 Good or poor project planning: doing only easy bits? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
9. 9.✂️ Your team must make 8 paper bags in 2 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
10. 10.📅 Your class magazine is due in 11 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
11. 11.📅 Your history chart is due in 9 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
12. 12.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
13. 13.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
14. 14.⏰ You start at 5:30 PM. Homework takes 40 minutes, then project work takes 25 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:55 PM (b) 6:10 PM (c) 6:35 PM (d) 6:50 PM
15. 15.⏰ You start at 4:30 PM. Homework takes 35 minutes, then project work takes 35 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:40 PM (b) 5:05 PM (c) 5:55 PM
16. 16.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) one huge deadline (c) no task list (d) setting mini-deadlines
18. 18.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) wait for help (b) do it all at once (c) give up (d) break it into steps
19. 19.True or false: “keeping spare days” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
21. 21.⏰ You start at 3:30 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 30 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:25 PM (b) 4:00 PM (c) 3:55 PM (d) 4:40 PM
22. 22.⏰ You start at 5:00 PM. Homework takes 35 minutes, then project work takes 25 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:35 PM (b) 5:25 PM (c) 6:00 PM (d) 6:15 PM
23. 23.Which of these is good project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) starting on the last day (c) guessing how long (d) breaking work into steps
24. 24.True or false: “guessing how long” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
25. 25.✂️ Your team must make 12 posters in 6 days, the same number each day. How many posters a day?
26. 26.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) to rest only (b) there is no need (c) for surprises (d) to start late
27. 27.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no spare time (b) doing only easy bits (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) one huge deadline
28. 28.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) checking progress weekly (c) keeping spare days (d) no spare time
29. 29.📅 Good or poor project planning: guessing how long? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
30. 30.True or false: “setting mini-deadlines” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.True or false: “listing tasks first” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
32. 32.Which of these is good project planning? (a) checking progress weekly (b) guessing how long (c) starting on the last day (d) forgetting the due date
33. 33.Which of these is good project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) no task list (c) one huge deadline (d) starting early
34. 34.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.True or false: “one huge deadline” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) starting on the last day (c) guessing how long (d) using a simple timetable
37. 37.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) starting early (c) hard part first (d) keeping spare days
39. 39.⏰ You start at 4:45 PM. Homework takes 40 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:45 PM (b) 6:00 PM (c) 5:05 PM (d) 5:25 PM
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) keeping spare days (c) hard part first (d) setting mini-deadlines

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